the Arabs should have been good neighbors to the Israelis and Zionists.
Once upon a time there were no Zionists in Palestine and when they began to arrive in the 1920s they mutated into
militant Zionists. These groups persecuted Arabs
and Jews - so called Yishuv.
Zionism is
alien to Jewish culture, hardly any Jews cared for it, for thousands of years it did not exist.
Zionism began in Europe, the educated intellectual Jews, secular Jews too for the most part. It is now a nationalist political ideology whereas Judaism is not, understand Zionism is not
really Jewish, it did not emerge from Jewish culture or Jewish society, it emerged from the industrialized and intellectual landscape of Europe coupled with enlightened politically aware Jews.
So from the outset it is an ideology at odds with Arabs
and Jews, it was hostile, disruptive and rapacious to
both cultures.
So there is no sense in arguing "Arabs should have been good neighbors to the Israelis and Zionists" because Arabs and Jews WERE neighbors in the region and had been for centuries, there was no huge Jewish push for nationalism among Jews in Palestine it is an
alien nationalist ideology that was nurtured by the British and
imported into Palestine and ever since has been creating misery and pain for millions of people, Arabs and Jews.
It's like saying Jews should have been good neighbors to the Germans and Nazis, that is how absurd the statement appears to any serious student of Israeli political history.
Now, an aside, take a look the Wikipedia article "Zionism" it has been getting edited almost daily, since early October, the article differs dramatically from what it was in late 2023, it is being massaged to distort the truth.
Look, here are
two versions of the article, on the
left is before Oct 7th and on the
right is today's latest version.
Prior to Oct 7th it is described as pertaining to a "Jewish homeland" that's been updated now to say "Jewish state in Palestine".
Well anyone who knows their history will tell you that Zionism was never about creating a state in Palestine, that is NOT what was envisaged or discussed by the early Zionist intellectuals in Europe, the article is WRONG now, whereas it was CORRECT before.
So understand that what the Israeli right wing xenophobes and their supporters mean by "Zionism" is not the truth, they have created a Jew supremacist nationalist ideology and deceitfully referred to that as "Zionism".
They want YOU to think that Zionism was always about what it is today, was always about a Jewish state, focused on Jews, but that's a lie.
This is why Noam Chomsky says "I was a Zionist in the 1930s but I'm not a Zionist today, not because I've changed but because the meaning of the word has been changed".
They are liars, that's what they do, the lie and deceive and kill, and expel and destroy and pillage.
Their, I've given you valuable knowledge, you can use it to go forward and discern further truths or you can dismiss it as an idle post by some anti-Zionist nut - that's your choice, do with it what you will.
